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POLITICAL ORIENTATION AS ASSOCIATED WITH STIGMATIZING AND AFFIRMING ATTITUDES TOWARD MENTAL ILLNESS
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Powell, Karina J.
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2013-02-04, 2013-05
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Stigma toward people with mental illness can have deleterious effects; employers avoid hiring them, landlords avoid renting to them, and...
Show moreStigma toward people with mental illness can have deleterious effects; employers avoid hiring them, landlords avoid renting to them, and negative attitudes are often a barrier to receiving quality health care. Literature on political ideology indicates that people tend to have fairly stable attitudes over time that are consistent with their political orientation. It is also the case that political ideology is an underlying factor of attitudes toward personal responsibility and hierarchical societal structure. Political ideology, as an underlying framework for attributing controllability through which many individuals view the world, is a demographic variable that needs to be further explored to more completely integrate variances into anti-stigma approaches. Pre-intervention data from a larger study assessing the effects of newspaper articles on attitudes about mental illness were utilized to examine the influence of political orientation on stigmatizing and affirming attitudes toward people with mental illness. Pearson product moment correlations between demographics, political orientation variables, stigmatizing attitudes, and affirming attitudes were conducted. Regression analyses were conducted to determine if political orientation or the interaction between political orientation and demographics are significantly related to stigmatizing attitudes. Results showed that political affiliation emerged as significant associated with pity, danger, blame, and anger when moderated by other demographics suggesting that endorsement of affiliation with a particular political party alone is not sufficient to emerge as related to stigmatizing attitudes, but rather varies at levels of other demographic variables.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2013
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Structural Survey of Select Spectrin Type Repeats within the Rod Region of Dystrophin Using Hydrophobic Moment Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Supplementing Crystallographic Data
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Reinfelds, Pauls Edvins
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2012-07-18, 2012-07
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Dystrophin is a rod shaped protein consisting of amino- and carboxy-terminal binding domains linked by a large central rod composed of 24...
Show moreDystrophin is a rod shaped protein consisting of amino- and carboxy-terminal binding domains linked by a large central rod composed of 24 homologous copies of the STR motif and 5 non-homologous regions termed hinges. There are no high-resolution crystallographic structures available for the STR repeats. This work yielded protein crystals and data sets of two STR fragments (d5 & d16-17). Though unable to produce a high resolution structure, this work examines the physical properties of the rod region utilizing hydrophobic moment analysis and molecular dynamics to suggest flexibility among the helices of the STR fragments. Helical shifting appears to possibly occur among the more stable STR tandems to increase the cooperation among certain adjacent fragments. A full understanding of how these properties vary along the length of the rod has implications for the engineering of these rods regions in future dystrophin therapies.
Ph.D. in Biology, July 2012
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The relative cost of operating steam and electric locomotives for switching purposes on the St. Paul railway industry tracks
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Havlick, Spenser N, Sanger, John P, Malwitz, R. C, Albee, T. L
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2009, 1921
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Armour Institute of Technology
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http://www.archive.org/details/relativecostofop00havl
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1921. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1921
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